D Gypsy Major — Bass (6-String)

The D Gypsy Major scale runs 7 notes per octave in the world family. Below it sits on the Bass (6-String)'s BEADGC strings with every root marked, because a bassist reads a scale map as a set of targets around the root, not a row of dots.

Brash and colorful — a #2 crushed against the major 3rd and a #4 give it a Lydian-dominant swagger with a Romani twist. Bold, spicy, and unpredictable.

Heard in: Hungarian and Romani folk, Bartok and Liszt, gypsy-jazz flourishes, and fusion lines over dominant chords.

In fourths tuning every pattern is movable: learn the shape once, one finger per fret, and it works from any root on the BEADGC neck. With the low B and high C in the tuning, the same fingering covers more range before your hand ever shifts.

Walk it slowly against the audio, land each root on a downbeat, then take it to the progressions in D and let the scale turn into lines.